Temporary Sentence Examples

These temporary aims are like the broom fixed in front of a locomotive to clear the snow from the rails in front: they clear men's moral responsibilities from their path.

We will meet them soon at our temporary home.

Stopping by the employment office, she contracted for temporary help to put up the fence.

Alex had made a temporary gate between the two fields.

We knew it was but a temporary hibernation.

A temporary sensation entered her mind, as if a breeze ruffled through her thoughts.

Help your temporary mama keep her job, she said to the cat.

"Our temporary sheriff is getting more interesting," Fred said.

Howie's temporary absence eliminated the problem, at least for now; no trips back to a crime scene resulted in no tips to convey.

Two of the goats had gone into labor, so she transferred them to the building on the release side of the dairy, where they had set up temporary kidding stalls.

No, but she said it was paper—you know, a temporary plate!

Iggy found a temporary solution to stop the spread, and I sealed the area around the town.

It did sound as if the Dawkins boys' temporary peace had come to an end, but Dean paid little heed to the raised voices.

Maybe her feelings for Alex were nothing more than temporary infatuation.

Having to give up all hope is worse than the temporary down of finding out I'm not pregnant.

"It's a temporary gig," Jessi said.

At St John's in Newfoundland he erected a temporary receiving antenna consisting of a wire 400 ft.

No other guests were due to arrive for a few days and with the housework up to date, thanks to the temporary help of Janet, the Deans decided to try out the fresh snow on the cross country trails on Red Mountain.

The movement of emigration may be divided into two currents, temporary and permanentthe former going chiefly towards neighboring European countries and to North Africa, and consisting of manual laborers, the latter towards trans-oceanic countries, principally Brazil, Argentina and the United States.

Strictly a temporary pad—home's in Jersey.

Lana walked back to the town and to the storefront that was her temporary home.

Following on this he made an interesting experiment, using Morse's method, to connect the Isle of Wight telegraphically with the mainland, by conduction across the Solent in two places, during a temporary failure of the submarine cable in 1882 in that channel.

"Whatever. I'll consider this temporary," she said at last.

Unfavourable political and economic conditions of a temporary character influence the emigration movement.

Cynthia telephoned her son and apparently made temporary peace, although Dean wasn't privy to the details.

Is this one a temporary diversion?

Will you treat them with the same temporary tolerance?

Her residence was compliments of Janet O'Brien, one of a long line of Bird Song's temporary domestics.

A sinking feeling of panic swept over them, a temporary paralyzing fear.

The three went to Fred's temporary quarters in Martha's small first-floor room to compose the message.

Instead of everyone running around, slipping and sliding, shoveling slushy muck and shivering, here people just shift into a lower gear, listen to the quiet and enjoy the temporary peace.

Having to give up all hope is worse than the temporary down of finding out I'm not pregnant.

Sure, and I was nothing but a temporary diversion - a local hick to provide you with entertainment.

The pouch from which the marsupials take their name is supported by the two epipubic bones, but does not correspond to the temporary breeding-pouch of the monotremes.

Its history under the Byzantine rule is uneventful,but for some temporary occupations by the Saracens (653 -658, 717-718), and the gradual encroachment of Venetian traders since 1082.

Claire didn't look any worse for wear after a day in the offsite location Dusty had scouted as a temporary dungeon for their prisoners.

David and Cynthia Dean had experienced little success in trying to secure a more formal arrangement for long term custody of Martha, managing only undocumented assignment as temporary foster parents.

A young couple whose life dream was owning a Bird Song look-alike learned from Fred the principals would be absent for the day and offered to stick around playing temporary innkeepers.

Weller assured Dean that the authorities were satisfied with Martha's temporary situation.

Dean tried to ignore Edith Shipton's body as he passed the temporary catafalque erected in his office.

It's temporary custody at first until some court stuff takes place and we're married but the lawyer says Shipton definitely signed.

The knee injury Mayer mentioned had occurred a year before and while it might have kept Byrne from jogging, it was no more than a temporary ailment.

Say Cleary rented the place innocently—he's a coast-to-coast truck driver or something and needs a temporary place, just like Burgess.

Your temporary babysitter was supposed to come by at noon today so I could run through things with her.

All this points to a temporary occupation by a race at a far higher stage of culture than any known Australians, who were certainly never capable of executing even the crude works of art described.

The excess expenditure caused the Post Office during two or three years to make temporary application of Savings Banks' balances to telegraph expenditure, an expedient which was disapproved of by both the Treasury and the House of Commons.

It had been nearly a month of empty Thursday nights since his no-show session with Ethel Rosewater and the beautiful Betty from Boise was offering an effective way to make sure that embarrassment was a temporary happening.

The world outside his temporary home was constantly changing; here, he was almost at ease.

They nowhere built permanent dwellings, but contented themselves with mere hovels for temporary shelter.

This is 490,251 higher than the actual population, 32,475,253, ascertained by the census of the 10th of February 1901; the difference is due to temporary absences from their residences of certain individuals on military service, &c., who probably were counted twice, and also to the fact that 469,020 individuals were returned as absent from Italy, while only 61,606 foreigners were in Italy at the date of the census.

Anyway, we'll put you in temporary housing until we have a place for you, Kelli said.

She found the maestro towards the end of 1837 dispirited by a temporary eclipse of popularity and in the first stage of his fatal malady, and carried him off to winter with her in the south.

Willarski was married to a Russian heiress who had a large estate in Orel province, and he occupied a temporary post in the commissariat department in that town.